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AEW ALL OUT PPV REPORT
SEPTEMBER 26, 2026
CHICAGO, ILL. AT NOW ARENA
AIRED LIVE ON TNT & HBO MAX
Commentators: Excalibur, Taz, Tony Schiavone
Ring Announcer: Arkady Aura
Attendance: WrestleTix reports as of today 9,456 tickets were distributed so far. Every seat that could be made available was sold so a legit full sellout.
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(1) ANDRADE EL IDOLO vs. PAC (w/Marina Shafir) – AEW National Title match
They stared each other down and the crowd fell silent. It built tension but was also awkward. Fans chanted, “How you know? He’s a bastard!” They each tested each other with various signature moves early. They fought at ringside a few minutes in. Andrade had Pac in the corner. Rather than try to win the match and keep his title, he played to the crowd and teased taking off his pants. Pac recovered and overhead tossed Andrade hard into the corner. Fans, in the spirit of the pre-show comedy match, chanted, “Take your pants off!” (There’s no reason to expect fans to take the match seriously at this point.)
Andrade made a comeback and kipped up. He again began to take off his pants. Pac recovered and attacked him. Excalibur said he should be keeping focused. Andrade gave Pac three unreleased vertical suplexes, then clotheslined Pac out of the ring. Andrade, for a third time, went to his buckle and removed his pants. He had trouble getting them past his boots. Some fans cheered. After all that, Andrade landed a leaping tornado dive onto Pac at ringside and landed it. Andrade then strutted to a woman in the front row who flirted back with him. They took a selfie. Shafir came up behind the woman and put her in a sleeper. Pac then attacked Andrade. He leaped off the top rope with a moonsault onto Andrade.
Pac then landed a 450 splash in the ring for a near fall. Andrade made a comeback. Shafir stood on the ring apron. Andrade let himself get distracted for like 20 seconds by that. Pac recovered and rallied with a reverse huracanrana and then applied a Brutalizer, but Andrade leveraged Pac’s shoulders down for a three count.
WINNER: Andrade in 18:00.
(Keller’s Analysis: Andrade playing into removing his pants at the expense of trying to defend his title successfully took me out of the match, no matter what else they did that was strong. The ringside selfie spot in the midst of a title match was also stupid. And then Andrade being completely needlessly preoccupied by Shafir and almost losing because of it made me resent the finish seconds later where he managed to win despite that. I thought this had potential to be great, and it was just sports entertainment silliness overshadowing the sense of sports competition throughout.)
(2) DARBY ALLIN & STEVEN BORDEN vs. KYLE FLETCHER & KEVIN KNIGHT (w/Don Callis)
A fan in the aisle seat held up a sign that said, “TKO fears TK.” Callis joined in on commentary. The bell rang 35 minutes into the hour. Fletcher asked for Borden after the bell rang, so Darby tagged in Borden. They engaged in a collar-and-elbow. Fans chanted, “F—, Don Callis!” Borden threw some big roundhouse punches. Darby knocked an interfering Knight to ringside. Darby and Borden stood together after clearing the ring. Schiavone said Borden said training for pro wrestling was harder than football because he has to keep up with Darby and deal with feedback from his father. Taz emphasized that pro wrestling is unlike anything else.
Darby tagged in. He was focused on Knight, so Fletcher jumped him. Fletcher powerbombed Darby at ringside as a counter to a huracanrana attempt. FLetcher stood on the steps and flexed his arms as Darby writhed in pain at ringside. Fletcher darted Darby into the middle turnbuckle in the ring. The ref didn’t see Darby tag in Borden and disallowed it. Fletcher laughed. Borden tagged in a minute later and hit rapid-fire moves on both Knight and Fletcher. When he dove at Fletcher with a Stinger Splash, Fletcher moved and Borden overshot to the floor. Knight and Fletcher threw Borden into the ringside barricade next. Darby dove at Fletcher and they both hit the announce desk. Knight leaped at Darby at ringside.
Borden and Knight each leaped off top turnbuckles and collided. They immediately called for the doctor. They checked on him. They called for the bell to stop the match. Fletcher asked Callis, “What happened?” He smiled and gloated. Callis jumped up and down excitedly. Borden didn’t move and fans were concerned. They replayed the landing and his head landed hard and his arm flexed resembling a concussion. Taz said you can’t fault the medical team for calling off the match. Callis looked concerned on teh ramp as Knight and Fletcher celebrated.
WINNER: Match Stopped Due To Medical.
-They went to the announcers and stopped showing the ring. As Taz and Excalibur discussed the situation, Schiavone looked at the ring and seemed seriously concerned. The crowd was silent. Fans stood and applauded. The announcers seemed shaken. Excalibur said Borden was now leaving the ringside area. Excalibur complimented the medical team for the call. He said it was an unpopular opinion. (Why did he think it was “an unpopular opinion?” I can’t imagine anyone was upset by the decision.) Excalibur’s voice was trembling a bit as he said they had to transition awkwardly to previewing the next match.
(Keller’s Analysis: That was scary and honestly brought me back to how everyone acted after Owen Hart fell from the catwalk and died. You could tell the announcers and the fans behind them who were visible were as concerned as anyone gets in pro wrestling for injuries. The fact that they didn’t go back to the ring to show Borden getting up to leave made it seem even more ominous.)
-A promo segment aired with Britt Baker and Persephone.
